Harvard Crimson: Study Finds Privacy Lapse in Facebook Apps
8 February 2008From Study Finds Privacy Lapse in Facebook Apps, The Harvard Crimson, 8 February 2008:
Playing Jetman on Facebook.com may cause you to lose more than just the game. Your private information is also at stake.
Facebook application developers—who can be anybody—are unnecessarily given full access to both users’ and their friends’ private information, according to a University of Virginia study.